26 MAY 1973, Page 26

Sir: It is bewildering that anyone can interpret my recent

letter to you as an attack on bachelors. As it happens, I am a bachelor; and there are few things I need less than the smug, impertinent, ' sympathy ' and ' understanding' of people like Mr Chowdha

ray-Best. D. Watkins

' Gaycroft,' Laleston, Bridgend, Glamorgan.